starting headless firefox with Xvfb does not work

Question

I try to run firefox in headless mode for selenium.

$xvfb-run firefox seems to work.

I run firefox through selenium so i cannot run xvfb-run directly.

So i start

Xvfb :1 -screen 0 1024x768x24 &

and then

set DISPLAY:=1 env DISPLAY:=1

Still when i run firefox i get

Error: no display specified

I run on centos 6 and firefox 38 ESR.

What can be done?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 09 '15 at 14:06

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can you try that? export DISPLAY=:1

answered Sep 09 '15 at 14:06

Mahsum Akbas

unfortunately i have a tcsh shell so i cannot use this – David Michael Gang Sep 09 '15 at 15:01
setenv DISPLAY=:1 :) – cgseller Aug 18 '17 at 17:50

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 14 '16 at 17:06

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start firefox with --display arg

/usr/bin/firefox --display=:1

answered Nov 14 '16 at 17:06

Marko Dolancic

2 Answers2